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Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of…
Aphorisms of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of the covenants, satisfaction, righteousness, faith, works, &c. : published especially for the use of the church of Kidderminster in Worcestershire / by their unworthy teacher Ri. Baxter.Aphorismes of justification, with their explication annexed wherein also is opened the nature of the covenants, satisfaction, righteousnesse, faith, works, &c. : published especially for the use of the church of Kederminster in Worcestershire / by their unworthy teacher Ri. Baxter.
Hague: printed by Abraham Brown, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. The Books that are written of justification are many, and some great, which I knew you had not time to read; and if you did, perhaps would lose much of your labour, as I have done: Therefore I desired to set the most necessary part before you in a narrower compass. I never intended the full handling of the Doctrine of justification, these Aphorisms being but for the Answering of a particular Question: Especially what is in Master Bradshaw I omit, because I expect that you will read and study him, the Book being so small, and of such singular worth, containing as much as the greatest Volumes. In some places I have omitted the proof of my Assertions, partly because they seemed plain, or to be the evident consectaries of former Positions; partly for brevity, and partly because it is for your use, to whom I am (yet) at hand to clear what you doubt of; and who, I hope, do understand, that to take upon trust from your Teachers what you cannot yet reach to see in its own evidence, is less absurd, and more necessary than many do imagine. Moreover, knowing, that I must shortly put off this Tabernacle, and be taken from you, I thought good to use this endeavour, that you may be able after my departure, to have these things in your understandings and remembrance ⟨image 8⟩(2 Pet. 1. 14. 15.) And while I am in this flesh, I shall not cease to admonish you, and pray on your behalf, that you may beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness; but may grow in Grace, and in the Knowledge of our LORD and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST: Nor shall I desire any greater Honour or Advancement on this Earth, than with Ability, Sincerity, and Success, to be.
3. The Bookes that are written of justification are many, and some great, which I knew you had not time to read; and if you did, perhaps would lose much of your labour, as I have done: Therefore I desired to set the most necessary part before you in a narrower compasse. I never intended the full handling of the Doctrine of justification, these Apherismes being but for the Answering of a particular Question: Especially what is in Master Bradshaw I omit, because I expect that you will read and study him, the Book being so small, and of such singular worth, containing as much as the greatest Volumes. In some places I have omitted the proofe of my Assertions, partly because they seemed plaine, or to be the evident consectaries of former Positions; partly for brevty, and partly because it is for your use, to whom I am (yet) at hand to cleare what you doubt of; and who, I hope, doe understand, that to take upon trust from your Teachers what you cannot yet reach to see in its owne evidence, is lesse absurd, and more necessary than many doe imagine. Moreover, knowing, that I must shortly put off this Tabernacle, and be taken from you, I thought good to use this endeavour, that you may bee able after my departure, to have these things in your understandings and remembrance